Well, Coachella was this past weekend. Should I have bought a plane ticket to the US for this? Feeling too old to camp in a field for 3 days. But still ….

Friday …. Beirut, Conor Oberst, Felix da Housecat, Franz Ferdinand, Girl Talk, Leonard Cohen, M Ward, Morrissey, Paul McCartney, The Black Keys, The Hold Steady, The Ting Tings, more

Saturday …. Blitzen Trapper, Bob Mould, Booker T, Calexico, Dr. Dog, Drive By Truckers, Fleet Foxes, Glasvegas, Henry Rollins, Jenny Lewis, Junior Boys, M.I.A., Chemical Brothers, Killers, Thievery Corporation, Tinariwen, TV on the Radio, Joss Stone, many more

Sunday …. Antony & the Johnsons, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Devendra Barnhart, Groove Armada, Lupe Fiasco, Lykke Li, Mexican Institute of Sound, My Bloody Valentine, No Age, Okkervil River, Paul Weller, Perry Farrell, Peter Bjorn & John, Public Enemy, Roni Size, The Cure, Gaslight Anthem, The Orb, X, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and a whole lot more

So yeah, sometimes I feel like I live in a cultural wasteland.

Misc stuff:

HuffPo: You’re Fired, So Where Are the Jobs Now?

So many of the recently fired – exhausted by their search on the internet for jobs that aren’t there — turn to the free-lance life; consulting where they can, or trying to establish a new business of their own, providing they can find the funding for it – funding that seems to have been swallowed up by those great banking whales and AIG.

Gizmodo: Sorry Stereo, But Beatles in Mono Rocks a Lot More

But that wasn’t all. In the mono version you can hear stuff that is not in the stereo version. And not just bits, but quite a lot of things. Instruments, notes, even lyrics. Take the reprise version of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: It is full of shouting—Lennon going bananas at the end, and other bits at the beginning—that is not in the stereo mix.

Gizmodo: 50 Photographers Worth Checking Out
Links to here and well worth your time

TechCrunch: Hollywood Has a Great Online Distribution Model – If You Hate Selection

The fact that online distribution has to play in this foolish game of broadcast rights tennis, is of course, bullshit. The brick and mortar rental stores of yesteryear, like Blockbuster, don’t have to play by these ridiculous rules. Movies don’t vanish from their shelves because they’re playing on HBO for the next 18 months. If they did, Blockbuster would have been in trouble a lot sooner than its most recent woes (tied to its failure to get out in front of new forms of distribution).

AllMusic Blog: Best Classical Releases – First Quarter of 2009

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